LO1: Task 1 - Research of Jobs within the Film Industry

10 Job Roles within the media industry

Sound Engineer - The sound engineers make music and sounds for film and games

Writer - The writer creates scripts for the actors who will read it during the film

Illustrator - The illustrator creates designs, creates plans and sketches.

Runner - The runner will do jobs like PR, transporting equipment and more.

Post-production supervisor - The post production supervisor works alongside the director with responsibilities like being in charge of the post production budget and jobs.

Editor (lead) - The lead editor is in charge of the post production team with the role of checking the sound and film.

Director - The director has one of the most important jobs where they're in charge of everything with planning and overseeing different roles and jobs with the director managing the editing during post production to ensure the film comes out how he envisioned it to be.

Unit Publicist - The unit publicist works through the post and primary production to link media to the production team.

PR Manager - The PR Manager has a variety of jobs which could range from press launches to making sure the company is viewed as a good company where they manage any negative claims.

Different Industries

The QA tester’s job is to test games by debugging them, testing and alters them with making sure they’re high standard before they go public. The testers will keep playing the game after it has gone public to keep finding any bugs and issues which have been missed or created when it goes public with people playing together in real time. 

Designer - The designer is in charge of creating pre production plans for the game with creating ideas and concepts for more media like characters, content and more.

Sound engineer - The sound engineer makes sounds for games and other things during the main production. 

Artist - The artist will work through main production of a game to create designs, drawings of maps, characters and more. The artists will work through production in the pre production to create initial ideas and plans. 

Marketer - The marketer is in charge of manages the distribution by spreading the word of the production to millions of people through social media and advertising with dropping snippets of the product as a teaser so people are excited about the launch of the product.